John PayneFilmography

The Savage Wild

Actors: Gordon Eastman, Carl Spore, Maria Eastman, Arlo Curtis

Synopsis: Naturalist Gordon Eastman was the "auteur" of Savage Wild. Eastman not only directed the film, but wrote, photographed, edited and narrated. The action takes place somewhere in the Arctic Circle and details the raising of a pack of wolves, from infant captivity to eventual freedom. Savage Wild was Read More

They Ran for Their Lives

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this crime adventure, a young woman carrying an important paper finds herself pursued by three crooks who chase her into the desert. She is saved by a helpful stranger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Risk

Actors: Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley

Synopsis: The Risk is a mild melodrama concerning the political aspects of germ warfare. A group of British scientists led by Peter Cushing develop a means of wiping out the bubonic plague and typhus. Unfortunately the method is variable enough to run the risk of spreading the very diseases it is designed Read More

The Restless Gun: Season 02

Actors: John Payne

Best of Broadway: "The Philadelphia Story"

Synopsis: A dramatization of the Philip Barry play about a rich society divorcee who is looking for a real romance and meets a fast-talking reporter who falls in love with her. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hidden Fear

Actors: John Payne, Alexander Knox, Conrad Nagel, Natalie Norwick, Anne Neyland

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Copenhagen, Hidden Fear stars John Payne as an American lawman whose Denmark-based sister Natalie Norwick is in big, big, trouble. Arrested for the murder of her music hall partner, Natalie hopes that Payne can clear her name. Following the evidence trail, the detective meets Read More

Bail out at 43,000

Actors: John Payne, Karen Steele, Paul Kelly, Richard Eyer, Constance Ford

Synopsis: Newly re-energized in the late 1950s, the venerable Pine-Thomas production company moved from Paramount to United Artists, there to make such actioners as Bailout at 43,000. John Payne stars as a courageous test pilot, who joins a team busily testing jet-bomber ejector seats. But before he can Read More

The Restless Gun: Season 01

Actors: John Payne

Rebel in Town

Actors: John Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish, Ben Cooper, John Smith

Synopsis: Rebel in Town was the third issue from Bel-Air Productions, a firm co-founded by film execs Howard W. Koch and Aubrey Schenck. While the title character is played by John Smith, top billing goes to John Payne as ex-Union officer John Willoughby. When Willoughby's young son (Bobby Clark) snaps his Read More

Hold Back the Night

Actors: John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Graves, Chuck Connors, Audrey Dalton

Synopsis: Hold Back the Night is one of Allied Artists' down-and-dirty World War II dramas of the 1950s and 1960s. John Payne stars as a tough commanding officer, guiding the fighting retreat of an Allied platoon in the snowy hills of Korea. Payne always carries with him an unopened bottle of whiskey, which Read More

The Boss

Actors: John Payne, William Bishop, Gloria McGhee, Doe Avedon, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: John Payne always felt that he delivered his best screen performance in The Boss. Set in the years following WW1, the story concerns a small-town veteran named Matt Brady (John Payne), whose brother, machine politician Tim Brady (Roy Roberts), arranges for Matt to get a cushy government job. When Read More

Slightly Scarlet

Actors: John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Rhonda Fleming, Kent Taylor, Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: This little film noir is freely adapted from James M. Cain's novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit, the story of a gangster working for a powerful Don who is fighting to retain control of the city's criminal activities when an honest mayoral candidate launches a strong anti-crime campaign. In a Read More

Santa Fe Passage

Actors: John Payne, Faith Domergue, Rod Cameron, Slim Pickens, Irene Tedrow

Synopsis: In this western, a man is falsely accused of betraying a wagon train to the Apaches and is punished by his employers, but not fired. His boss gives him a second chance and the man is assigned to make sure that an arms shipment makes it safely through the Indian land. The woman who owns the Read More

The Road to Denver

Actors: John Payne, Mona Freeman, Lee J. Cobb, Ray Middleton, Skip Homeier, Andy Clyde

Synopsis: Though running 90 minutes, Road to Denver moves along at a much faster clip than most Republic "A" westerns. John Payne and Skip Homeier star as the Mayhew brothers, Bill and Sam. Tired of pulling his headstrong younger brother Sam out of his various scrapes, Bill heads off to Denver alone. Here Read More

Hell's Island

Actors: John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan, Eduardo Noriega, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: Phil Karlson, well-regarded by film buffs for his tough, no-nonsense crime dramas, directed this adventure story shot partially on location in the Caribbean. Mike Cormack (John Payne) was once a District Attorney, until his fiancée, Janet Martin (Mary Murphy), left him to marry another man. Read More

Silver Lode

Actors: John Payne, Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea, Dolores Moran, Emile G. Meyer, Frank Sully

Synopsis: Next to Slightly Scarlet, Silver Lode is the best of the many 1950s collaborations between producer Benedict Bogaeus and director Allan Dwan. Clearly inspired by High Noon, the story covers three hours in the lives of a group of westerners. As the townsfolk prepare for the Fourth of July Read More

Tennessee's Partner

Actors: John Payne, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Coleen Gray, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: Another winning collaboration between producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan, Tennessee's Partner is the third film version of the same-named Bret Harte story. The plotline is motivated by the curious friendship between slick gambler Tennessee (John Payne) and gunslinging Cowpoke Read More

Rails into Laramie

Actors: John Payne, Mari Blanchard, Dan Duryea, Joyce MacKenzie, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Rails into Laramie is one of the more obscure Universal-International western programmers of the 1950s, but this is no reflection on its entertainment value. John Payne stars as "town tamer" Jefferson Harder, who intends to clean up the wide-open community of Laramie. Everyone knows that the Read More

99 River Street

Actors: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, Peggie Castle

Synopsis: Ernie Driscoll (John Payne) is an ex-fighter who came within seconds of winning the world championship. He's now forced to eke out a living driving a cab. A basically decent guy, he has lots of people who care about him, including Linda James (Evelyn Keyes), a slightly ditsy actress friend -- but Read More

The Vanquished

Actors: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Jan Sterling, Lyle Bettger, Willard Parker

Synopsis: The Vanquished represented another winner from Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit. John Payne plays Rock Grayson, a Civil War POW who returns to his Southern home to find carpetbagger Roger Hale (Lyle Bettger) in charge of things. An old enemy of Grayson's, Hale has commandeered the Grayson Read More

Raiders of the Seven Seas

Actors: John Payne, Donna Reed, Gerald Mohr, Lon Chaney, Jr., Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: John Payne stars as legendary pirate Barbarossa -- aka Redbeard -- in Raiders of the Seven Seas. Capturing a Spanish galleon almost single-handedly, Barbarossa claims haughty Contessa Alida (Donna Reed) as his own property. Engaged to marry naval officer Alfredo (Gerald Mohr), Alida despises Read More

Kansas City Confidential

Actors: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston S. Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand

Synopsis: Kansas City Confidential, Phil Karlson's low (low) budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster (Preston S. Foster). Foster devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit three of the most vicious and Read More

Caribbean

Actors: John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Cedric Hardwicke, Francis L. Sullivan, Willard Parker

Synopsis: Caribbean was another box-office winner from Paramount's "two dollar bills," producers William H. Pine and William Thomas. Set in the 18th century, the film stars John Payne as adventurer Dick Lindsay, hired by pirate leader Charles Barclay (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) to pose as the long-lost nephew of Read More

The Blazing Forest

Actors: John Payne, William Demarest, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Arlen, Susan Morrow

Synopsis: Library footage from the 1940 Paramount feature The Forest Rangers is used sparingly but effectively in the 1952 Pine-Thomas production The Blazing Forest. John Payne plays troubleshooting logger Kelly Hanson, who is hired by timber baroness Jessie Crain (Agnes Moorehead). Hanson is promised a Read More

Passage West

Actors: John Payne, Dennis O'Keefe, Arleen Whelan, Frank Faylen, Mary Anderson

Synopsis: Somewhat similar to John Ford's Wagon Master (1950), Passage West deals with a band of religious pioneers, led by a peace-loving minister (Dennis O'Keefe), heading across the desert. Along the trail, the travellers are forced to accompany with six escaped convicts who join the wagon train. The Read More

Crosswinds

Actors: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker, Robert Lowery, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit served up another winner with the Technicolor actioner Crosswinds. Set in New Guinea, the film stars John Payne as schooner captain Pete Singleton, who loses his boat to a pair of scheming gold thieves (Forrest Tucker, Robert Lowery). On board the vessel as a Read More

Tripoli

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed, Grant Withers

Synopsis: The fabled 19th-century clashes between U.S. Marines and the pirates of Tripoli have provided story material for dozens of films. Tripoli stars John Payne as two-fisted marine lieutenant O'Bannon, though top billing is bestowed upon Maureen O'Hara as Countess D'Arneau, who has come to Tripoli Read More

The Eagle and the Hawk

Actors: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Dennis O'Keefe, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Paramount producing team William H. Pine and William Thomas weren't known as the "Two Dollar Bills" for nothing. Like their medium-budget adventure yarns of the 1940s, their "A" western The Eagle and the Hawk proved a moneyspinner for Paramount's distribution channels. In his first western, John Payne Read More

Captain China

Actors: John Payne, Gail Russell, Jeffrey Lynn, Lon Chaney, Jr., Edgar Bergen

Synopsis: Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit was afforded a larger budget than usual for Captain China. The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a Read More

El Paso

Actors: John Payne, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dick Foran

Synopsis: Produced in garish Cinecolor, this aspiring "A" Western features John Payne as Clay Fletcher, an Eastern lawyer assigned to track down a judge whose signature is needed for some estate papers. Clay traces the judge, Henry Jeffers (Henry Hull), to El Paso, a lawless town ruthlessly run by saloon Read More

The Crooked Way

Actors: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Percy Helton

Synopsis: Postwar films were festooned with amnesiac ex-GIs who found themselves mixed up with crime. In The Crooked Way, John Payne plays memory-deficient veteran Eddie Rice, who runs afoul of mobster Vince Alexander (Sonny Tufts) and police inspector Lt. Williams (Rhys Williams). Both the crooks and the Read More

Larceny

Actors: John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters, Dorothy Hart

Synopsis: John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow (Joan Caulfied) into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Payne falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist Read More

The Saxon Charm

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Susan Hayward, John Payne, Audrey Totter, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: In this drama, an egomaniacal producer freely treads upon those around him without regard to the harm he does. The devoted wife of a novelist sees this after the producer foists himself on her during a party; she tries to warn her novelist husband who wants the man to produce his play, but he does Read More

Miracle on 34th Street

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, Harry Antrim, Jerome Cowan, William Forrest, Herbert Heyes, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy's toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen O'Hara soon begins Read More

Sentimental Journey

Actors: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: A real three-handkerchief affair, Sentimental Journey stars John Payne and Maureen O'Hara as a Broadway producer Bill and his actress-wife Julie. Unable to have children, Julie adopts orphaned girl Hitty (Connie Marshall). Shortly afterward, Julie dies of a heart attack, leaving Hitty in the care Read More

Wake up and Dream

Actors: John Payne, June Haver, John Ireland, Connie Marshall, Clem Bevans, Charlotte Greenwood

Synopsis: In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW II. He had earlier told her that should he ever disappear, he could be found on a certain tiny island. She and her brother's girl friend head off and meet a strange old Read More

The Razor's Edge

Actors: Demetrius Alexis, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Walter Bonn, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Eugene Borden, Clifton Webb

Synopsis: After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in The Razor's Edge. Power is appropriately cast as disillusioned World War I vet Larry Darrell, who returns from hostilities questioning his old values. To find himself Read More

The Dolly Sisters

Actors: Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver, S.Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took Broadway by storm in the early 1900s. Betty Grable plays Jennie and June Haver plays Rosie; their uncle is the inevitable "funny foreigner" S.Z. Sakall, who manages their career Read More

Hello, Frisco, Hello

Actors: Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari, Laird Cregar

Synopsis: Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John Payne plays Johnny Cornell, a sharp wheeler-dealer operating on the Barbary Coast at the turn of the century. With the help of his songstress girlfriend Trudy Evans (Alice Read More

Iceland

Actors: Sonja Henie, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Felix Bressart, Osa Massen

Synopsis: When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female population. He makes a casual pass at skating champ Sonja Henie, only to discover that she has taken his attentions as a marriage proposal! Unable to weasel out of his situation Read More

To the Shores of Tripoli

Actors: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, William Tracy

Synopsis: One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WW2, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli was filmed with full the cooperation of the US Marine Corps. John Payne plays Chris Winters, a wealthy, wise-lipped young Marine recruit who learns the true meaning of Read More

Springtime in the Rockies

Actors: Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Charlotte Greenwood

Synopsis: A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells the not unfamiliar story of Vicky Lane (Grable, a Broadway dancer despairing over the tardiness of her partner Dan Christy (John Payne) who, as it turns out, has instead Read More

Footlight Serenade

Actors: John Payne, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jane Wyman, Phil Silvers, James Gleason

Synopsis: Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar Betty Grable, who's secretly married to actor John Payne. Unwilling to make public her marriage lest it adversely affect her career, Grable is unsuccessful in fending off Read More

The Great American Broadcast

Actors: Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero, Four Ink Spots

Synopsis: On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment The Great American Broadcast. Opening with clips of such airwaves favorites as Dick Powell and Fred Allen (courtesy of earlier Fox films like Thanks a Million), the picture Read More

Weekend in Havana

Actors: Alice Faye, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Cobina Wright, Jr.

Synopsis: In this musical, the cruise that salesgirl Nan Spencer (Alice Faye) worked so hard to pay for is cut tragically short when the ship is damaged. In recompense for the failed cruise, Nan is treated to a tour of Havana, guided by a shipping company officer, Jay Williams (John Payne). Once in Havana Read More

Sun Valley Serenade

Actors: Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian refugee adopted by band pianist John Payne, who mistakenly thought that the full-grown Miss Henie was a 10-year-old little girl. Payne's girlfriend, Lynn Bari, is a soloist Read More

Remember the Day

Actors: Claudette Colbert, John Payne, John Shepperd, Ann E. Todd, Anne Revere, Douglas Croft

Synopsis: A nostalgic and patriotic film from director Henry King similar to such later films as The Corn Is Green (1945). Claudette Colbert, stars as Nora Trinell, an aging schoolteacher awaiting a meeting with presidential candidate Dewey Roberts (Shepperd Strudwick). As Nora waits, she reflects on the Read More

Stardust

Actors: Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young, Charlotte Greenwood, William Gargan

Synopsis: 17-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century-Fox production Star Dust. Discovered by talent scout Thomas Brooke (Roland Young), teenager Carolyn Sayre (Darnell) is brought to Hollywood, where she is turned down for a contract because she is Read More

Tear Gas Squad

Actors: Dennis Morgan, John Payne, Gloria Dickson, George Reeves, Frank Wilcox

Synopsis: Warner Bros. Tear Gas Squad manages to pack thrills, comedy, romance and songs into a neat 55-minute package. Dennis Morgan plays cocky nightclub entertainer Tommy McCabe, who gets his jollies out of making fun of the local police force. This does not prove amusing to pretty Jerry Sullivan (Gloria Read More

Tin Pan Alley

Actors: Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if not close buddies), 20th Century-Fox cast both ladies in their 1940 "inventory" musical Tin Pan Alley. Set in the years just prior to and during WW1, the film casts Faye and Read More

King of the Lumberjacks

Actors: John Payne, Gloria Dickson, Stanley Fields, Joe Sawyer, Victor Kilian

Synopsis: A lumber camp provides the setting for this romantic drama that chronicles the love between a nightclub singer, her new husband, a lumberjack, and her old flame, who also happens to be working in the same camp. When the singer spies her former love, the affair is rekindled. Unfortunately, neither Read More

Maryland

Actors: Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Brenda Joyce, John Payne, Charlie Ruggles

Synopsis: The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical) horse-racing opus Maryland. After her husband (Russell Hicks) is killed during a fox hunt, Maryland matriarch Charlotte Danfield (Fay Bainter) forbids her son Lee (John Payne) from Read More

The Great Profile

Actors: John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff, John Payne, Anne Baxter

Synopsis: John Barrymore provides an embarrassing spectacle in the semi-autobiographical role of a ham actor. Constantly in debt and always half-loaded, Barrymore accepts a role in an important play, which he nearly ruins by his intemperate antics. Anne Baxter plays a sincere young woman who tries to pull Read More

Kid Nightingale

Actors: John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett, Edward S. Brophy, Charles D. Brown

Synopsis: A singing waiter with a wonderful operatic voice finds himself in the squared circle facing heavyweight boxers after he gets involved with crooked fight promoters who want him to both win the world heavyweight championship and attract more female fans with his post bout crooning. The promoters Read More

Wings of the Navy

Actors: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh, John Litel

Synopsis: Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros. drama was dedicated to the U.S. Naval Aviation Service and probably served as propaganda when it was released in 1939, right before the U.S. involvement in WWII. Submarine Read More

Indianapolis Speedway

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, John Payne, Gale Page, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother tries to keep his younger one from dropping out of school and becoming a driver too. The stubborn younger brother just gets behind the wheel of someone else's car and the race Read More

Garden of the Moon

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, John Payne, Johnnie Davis, Melville Cooper

Synopsis: The Garden of the Moon is a fancy New York nightclub owned by Pat O'Brien. Margaret Lindsay (replacing a recalcitrant Bette Davis) is the girl who comes between O'Brien and his bandleader, John Payne. The duplicitous O'Brien spends most of his screen time figuring out various underhanded means to Read More

College Swing

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: It's hard to go wrong with such stars as Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Martha Raye and Edward Everett Horton, and College Swing doesn't-go wrong, that is. The film begins in 1738, when a pact is drawn up between the Alden family and a highly respected Colonial college: If any female member of the Read More

Love on Toast

Actors: John Payne, Ben Baker

Synopsis: Love on Toast was one of several mid-1930s Hollywood films helmed by E. A. DuPont, a once-celebrated German filmmaker then on the skids. The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan Read More

Hats Off

Actors: Mae Clarke, John Payne, Helen Lynd

Synopsis: The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates Read More

Fair Warning

Actors: J. Edward Bromberg, Betty Furness, John Payne, Victor Kilian, Billy Burrud

Synopsis: Chunky character actor J. Edward Bromberg carries the weight of Fair Warning on his burly shoulders. Bromberg is cast as Matthew Jerico, a sheriff in the Death Valley region of California, at present assigned to solve the murder of a wealthy miner. The killing took place at a swank tourist resort Read More

Dodsworth

Actors: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven

Synopsis: In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged man who runs an auto manufacturing firm. His wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton) is obsessed with the notion that she's growing old, and she eventually persuades Sam to sell his Read More

The Temporary Widow

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Laurence Olivier, Felix Aylmer, Frank Stanmore

Synopsis: This German comedy contains the feature film debut of Sir Lawrence Olivier. He plays a modern artist who has not yet found an audience for his futuristic visions. The trouble begins when he apparently drowns during a boating accident and leaves his wife standing accused of murder. Eventually Read More

Star Dust

Synopsis: Lily Becker (Hope Hampton) is the musically talented daughter whose mother forces her into a marriage to the son of a wealthy man. Mistreated by the callous husband, she flees to New York to make it in the music business. She gives birth to a child and attempts suicide when she nearly starves to Read More